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Therapeutic strategies for durable response in plasma cell granulomas in the central nervous system

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  1. Department of Medicine, University of Maryland Medical Center, 22 S Greene St, Baltimore, MD, 21201, USA

    Ameet Patel

  2. Division of Hematology/Oncology, Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Mehmet H. Kocoglu

  3. American University Integrative Sciences, Tucker, GA, USA

    Akash Kaul

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Patel, A., Kocoglu, M.H. & Kaul, A. Therapeutic strategies for durable response in plasma cell granulomas in the central nervous system. Ann Hematol 98, 1027–1029 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00277-018-3490-7

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